Matria,” a 2018 short film Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner, Ramona works in a canning factory, under the orders of a remarkably termagant, foul-mouthed female factory foreman.Ramona hardly exchanges a word with her husband, but manages the household and her job – a punishing daily routine – and yet still manages to have a life: Her relationship with her daughter and grandchild affords her some emotional dignity.Selected for the 2020 TIFF Filmmaker Lab, which runs Sept.
10-19, Gago is now in advanced development on a feature length version of “Matria,” which he and his long-term producer Mireia Graell, both London Film School alums, put through the Madrid Film School’s Screen-Incubator and are now fine-tuning at the Toronto Festival’s Lab..
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